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It is the second time Cresswell has spoken out after telling West Ham’s website last month: “The most important thing is everyone's health and well-­being. Football can wait.

“I've got a five-week-old baby daughter and, I'll be honest, I'm petrified. 'There has been a lot of talk about how quick we can get football back.

“But the focus should be on people's health and staying indoors. Of course, we're all missing it - but there is a whole bigger picture. We can't rush back just because people say we must finish the season.”

Watford captain Troy Deeney - one of the 20 skippers to whom safety plans have already been pitched by the Premier League - has been scathing.

Deeney said on Thursday night on Instagram : “I am not even talking about football at the moment — I am talking about my family's health, and that is it.

“If I feel that I'm not looking after my family, then I'm not going to do it. I am not going to put my family at risk.

“What are they going to do, take money off me? I've been broke before so it doesn't bother me.

“I am all for going back. But I am not for going back when it is not clear on how the steps are going to be made. What happens if a second wave of pandemic comes?’

“They're talking about not playing in front of fans until 2021. So if it's not safe enough for fans to be inside a stadium why should it be safe for players to be in there?

“At corners, Watford have 11 men back so you're talking about having 18 or 19 men in a penalty area. That's not social distancing.

“They're the kind of questions people have been asking but we haven't had the best answers at the moment. Not because people don't want to give you the answers, it's because they can't give you the answers.”

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